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IEEE Spectrum
June 2008
Morgen E. Peck |
A Chip to Better Control Brain Stimulators for Parkinson's Michigan engineers are developing a closed-loop deep-brain stimulation device for Parkinson's disease that would listen to the brain while stimulating it   |
Science News
Nathan Seppa |
Book Review: Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Treatment Shows Promise In The Most Difficult Cases By Jamie Talan / Science News Jamie Talan describes brain surgery aimed at addressing movement disorders and zeros in on deep-brain stimulation, a cutting-edge treatment in which doctors implant electrodes. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006
Samuel K. Moore |
Psychiatry's Shocking New Tools Electronic implants and electromagnetic pulses are picking up where psychoactive drugs have failed. |
Wired
July 2005
Annalee Newitz |
The Coming Boom Big Pharma has made billions pumping up the male population. Now neuroscientists are reverse engineering the female orgasm. For women, excitement starts in the brain. |
American Family Physician
January 15, 2003
Nusbaum et al. |
Chronic Illness and Sexual Functioning Patients who have chronic illness often have difficulties with sexual functioning. With an understanding of the impact that illness can have on sexual functioning and the use of basic management strategies, family physicians can readily enhance quality of life for their patients. |
American Family Physician
July 1, 2000 |
Sex Isn't Working for Me. What Can I Do? When you have problems with sex, doctors call it "sexual dysfunction." Men and women can have it. There are four kinds of sexual problems in women. |
American Family Physician
July 1, 2000
Nancy A. Phillips |
Female Sexual Dysfunction: Evaluation and Treatment Sexual dysfunction includes desire, arousal, orgasmic and sex pain disorders (dyspareunia and vaginismus). Primary care physicians must assume a proactive role in the diagnosis and treatment of these disorders... |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005
Michael Arndt |
Rewiring The Body First came pacemakers. Now exotic implants are bringing new hope to victims of epilepsy, paralysis, depression, and other diseases. And some of the biggest names in health care are in a scramble to get into the market. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2007
Morgen E. Peck |
Researchers Testing New Electric Treatment for Migraines A small DC current through the skull seems to interrupt the headaches and may even prevent them |
Bio-IT World
July 2005 |
DBS Model Full color illustrations of a deep brain stimulation system using a pulse generator in the chest and four electrodes in the brain. |
Health
November 2006
Kara Jesella |
The Story of O: Myths, Multiples, and More Here's what's happening inside your body during an orgasm -- and why. |
Wired
March 2007
Steven Gulie |
A Shock to the System To slow the progress of Parkinson's disease, doctors planted electrodes deep in my brain. Then they turned on the juice. |
BusinessWeek
January 8, 2007
John Carey |
A Little Blue Pill For Women? A German drugmaker has stumbled upon a substance that increases female arousal. |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005
Michael Arndt |
"Pacemakers" for the Rest of You Slews of tiny devices that deliver electrical stimulation to a wide variety of organs should soon become available. |
Nurse Practitioner
January 2009
Clair Kaplan |
Assessing & Managing Female Sexual Dysfunction NPs can be important first-line, healthcare providers for women with FSD. |
Wired
February 2000
Kevin Warwick |
Cyborg 1.0 I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change. I will tell you why... |
Wired
September 2006
Gary Greenberg |
Back From the Dead A small but passionate group of doctors say that electricity applied deep in the brain can jolt patients out of irreversible comas. That's when the real problems begin. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2007
Morgen E. Peck |
Deep-Brain Stimulators for Parkinson's Disease Increase Impulsive Decision Making Electronic brain implants make it harder to decide what's better than good. |
BusinessWeek
July 5, 2004 |
The Heart Is Just the Start CEO Art Collins explains how Medtronics is moving into treating spinal injuries, neurological disorders, diabetes, and more. |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005 |
Dr. Oesterle's Stimulating Work Medtronic's chief medical officer, Dr. Stephen N. Oesterle, discusses the progress and potential of using "implanted pulse generators" to treat chronic ailments. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2009
Prachi Patel |
Laser Probes for Brain Experiments Laser-activated probes stimulate brain cells better, say scientists |
AskMen.com
Roizen & Oz |
The Effects Of Sex On Your Health An excerpt from the authors book The Owner's Manual about the positive effects of sex on our health and how to have a fulfilling sex life. |
Wired
August 2001
John Hockenberry |
The Next Brainiacs If puppetry is the clever mapping of human characteristics onto a nonhuman object, then disability is the same mapping onto a still-human object. Getting good at being disabled is like discovering an alternative platform. Science is bringing us closer to becoming puppet masters... |
Salon.com
October 26, 2000
Barbara Raab |
The vagina dialogues Hundreds of doctors gather in Boston for their annual gabfest about women's sexual dysfunction -- but some of their colleagues say they're misguided... |
The Motley Fool
July 12, 2011
Arundhati Parmar |
FDA Allows Expansion of St. Jude Study to Treat Severe Depression St. Jude moves forward with treatment for depression. |
Salon.com
June 21, 2000
Kuhn & Wilson |
Dazed and unused In the debut of a new column on drugs, our expert pharmacologists advise a woman on what to do with her stoned boyfriend's lack of interest in sex. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2012
Jose M. Carmena |
How to Control a Prosthesis With Your Mind New brain-machine interfaces that exploit the plasticity of the brain may allow people to control prosthetic devices in a natural way. |
American Family Physician
November 1, 2002
Nusbaum & Hamilton |
The Proactive Sexual Health History Physicians consistently underestimate the prevalence of sexual concerns in their patients. By allocating time to discuss sexual health during office visits, high-risk sexual behaviors that can cause STDs, unintended pregnancies, and unhealthy sexual decisions may be reduced. |
PC Magazine
November 29, 2006 |
Brain Chip University of Washington researchers have demonstrated an implantable device in live animals that can record signals from one part of the brain and send the impulses to a different part of the brain. |
Chemistry World
October 6, 2015
Tim Wogan |
Rolled-up electrodes record brain activity without scarring Ultra-flexible neural electrodes have been created that can more precisely measure brain activity without causing tissue scarring. |
Chemistry World
July 25, 2012
Nina Notman |
Tracking Chemical Changes in the Brain New insight into how deep brain stimulation works could improve treatments for neurological diseases. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2008
Willie D. Jones |
New Brain-Machine Interface Reactivates Monkey's Paralyzed Muscles A monkey learned to use the output of just one brain cell to move its wrist |
Popular Mechanics
May 2006
Logan Ward |
Your Upgrade Is Ready Evolution has done its best, but there's a limit to our bodies capabilities. Wanna be Superman? Better call the engineers. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2008
Morgen E. Peck |
Scheme to Let Robot Take Over Brain-Computer Interface MEMS-based system could position electrodes in brain tissue to improve neural prosthetics. |
AskMen.com
Serdar Dag |
Why Men Act Strangely After 40 The development of a man's body and mind through middle-age. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005
Willie D. Jones |
Fiber to the Brain Nanotech researchers have devised a method for attaching electrodes to small clusters of brain cells -- or even individual neurons -- using the cardiovascular system as the conduit through which wires are threaded. |
Wired
August 2001
Jennifer Kahn |
Let's Make Your Head Interactive The Human Brain Project is combining wet anatomy with next-gen scanning, imaging, and networking to give neuroscience a revolutionary new tool -- the globally accessible online mind... |
Health
March 2006
Joan Raymond |
Rx for Passion Want a better sex life? Just follow the advice from psychotherapist and sex educator Laura Berman as contained in her book The Passion Prescription: Ten Weeks to Your Best Sex Ever! Here's an interview with the author. |
Popular Mechanics
July 7, 2008
Erik Sofge |
For Future of Mind Control, Robot-Monkey Trials Are Just a Start A study in the journal Nature this spring all but confirmed the latest evolution in the hard-charging, heady field of cybernetics: Monkeys can control machines with their brains. |
Health
November 2006
Kara Jesella |
12 Secrets to Better Orgasms 1. Hit the hot spots... 2. Talk the talk... 3. Learn on your own... 4. Exercise your orgasm muscles... etc. |
American Family Physician
May 1, 2004
Daniel Knight |
Health Care Screening for Men Who Have Sex with Men Recommendations on health care screenings for men who have sex with men, who are at increased risk for STDs such as HIV infection, anal cancer, and psychologic and behavioral disorders. |
